My poker roots go back to The Eccentric’s Club in Dublin and Binion’s Horseshoe in Downtown Las Vegas. First person I met in Eccentric’s Club was Colette Doherty, who was already a legend having won the first ever Irish Open. We became friends. Still are …
When I first played the Irish Open in the Eccentric’s Club on Hanlon’s Corner on Dublin’s North side in the mid 80’s, the buy-in was 1500. That’s about 6,000 in today’s money. Terry Rogers, who’d run the first ever No-Limit Holdem tournaments in Europe a …
Attendance and fun levels were impressive at this year’s Pokerstars sponsored Irish Open, but a number of us were saddened at the sudden death of popular English player Dave Barnes a couple of weeks before the event he’d been looking forward to. I’d …
Back in 1999, the late Rob Gardner and Presentable were the visionaries who brought poker from the back room to our living rooms when they ran tournament called Late Night Poker, made for tv. Under the table cameras allowed viewers to see each player’s …
Galway has always been a magnet for gamblers and poker players from home and abroad. Whether you’re traveling for the iconic Race Week, the annual horse racing festival with poker around the clock in the Eglinton Club, or one of Fintan’s magical poker …
It’s been a dreadful year for Irish music. First, we lost Aslan’s charismatic front man Christy Dignam, a proud son of Finglas. The night Christy died, I left the poker game in the Sporting Emporium and walked towards Grafton Street. I thought the crowd …
Much has been said over the years about Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers bringing no limit poker tournaments to Europe in the early eighties after a chance visit to The WSOP in Binion’s. I should know. I said a lot of it. What doesn’t get talked about is the …
These words were spoken by Mike Sexton as we hung out in the bar in the Radisson in Galway at the Irish Poker Championship in the 90’s. Mike would be delighted to hear me saying that he walked the walk, rather than just talked the talk. He joined us …
After a bout of Covid Light and boredom, it was good to get back to the poker and craic, which is par for the course in Dublin’s Sporting Emporium. A couple of days later, I got a call from a guy from Loughrea who said he was the son of a cousin of mine. …
The covid lockdown didn’t do us any favors. I lost two good American friends for life who were legends of the game: poker ambassador Mike Sexton and John “Scof” Sheffield of WSOP Binions fame. I had so much fun with these guys over a few decades. Vegas …
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